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  • I get email ads from various symphonies in this region.  (Pittsburg, Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto).  I'd love to go but most are evening performances and too far away.  I keep track of the live performances I've seen and have a mental wishlist of masterworks I'd love to hear live.  Today I got an advertisement for the Sibelius 2nd Symphony in Cleveland Sept. 29th.  It's high on my wishlist but it's an evening performance and Cleveland is 120 miles away requiring a hotel stay.  Unfortunately, finding a safe hotel near the concert hall (Severance Hall) is expensive ($$$) and I still have to drive 10 miles into the city from the hotel.  Also unfortunately, the program also includes two other pieces I have zero interest in.  I would love to go to hear the Sibelius 2nd Symphony but the ducks aren't in a row for me.  I'll satisfy my itch with my Buffalo trip a couple weeks later.

    But the Sibelius 2nd Symphony is wonderful.  The final movement always sends chills up my spine when the deep horn and bass string notes rattle the windows.  It makes a sound like those long horns in the mountains of Nepal amid screaming Scandanavian winds and majestic mountain views.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAOf46CXaaw  my spine tingling moments start building @ 34:50 and again @ 43:43 and again from 47:00 to the end (speakers with lots of bass help)  (watch Leonard Bernstein literally jump around on the podium laugh)

    Oops, edited to get the correct link to YouTube.

    I had the opportunity to go see the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) and it was amazing!!  My favourite of his Piano Concertos.

    I love Leonard Bernstein!  He was so amazing and lively.  He often seemed to be in his own world while conducting.  laugh  I get a total kick out of him in the videos of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing Beethoven's Piano Concertos 1-5 with Krystian Zimerman.  heart  He was such a gem.

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,299
    edited September 2016
    Stryder87 said:

    I get email ads from various symphonies in this region.  (Pittsburg, Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto).  I'd love to go but most are evening performances and too far away.  I keep track of the live performances I've seen and have a mental wishlist of masterworks I'd love to hear live.  Today I got an advertisement for the Sibelius 2nd Symphony in Cleveland Sept. 29th.  It's high on my wishlist but it's an evening performance and Cleveland is 120 miles away requiring a hotel stay.  Unfortunately, finding a safe hotel near the concert hall (Severance Hall) is expensive ($$$) and I still have to drive 10 miles into the city from the hotel.  Also unfortunately, the program also includes two other pieces I have zero interest in.  I would love to go to hear the Sibelius 2nd Symphony but the ducks aren't in a row for me.  I'll satisfy my itch with my Buffalo trip a couple weeks later.

    But the Sibelius 2nd Symphony is wonderful.  The final movement always sends chills up my spine when the deep horn and bass string notes rattle the windows.  It makes a sound like those long horns in the mountains of Nepal amid screaming Scandanavian winds and majestic mountain views.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAOf46CXaaw  my spine tingling moments start building @ 34:50 and again @ 43:43 and again from 47:00 to the end (speakers with lots of bass help)  (watch Leonard Bernstein literally jump around on the podium laugh)

    Oops, edited to get the correct link to YouTube.

    I had the opportunity to go see the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) and it was amazing!!  My favourite of his Piano Concertos.

    I love Leonard Bernstein!  He was so amazing and lively.  He often seemed to be in his own world while conducting.  laugh  I get a total kick out of him in the videos of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing Beethoven's Piano Concertos 1-5 with Krystian Zimerman.  heart  He was such a gem.

    Yeah, Bernstein was very present in the '60s & '70s.  I don't know if you are old enough to remember his "Young People's Concerts"  on TV.  So many of us of that era got our first real exposure to something other than rock or country or WWII music through his "Young People's Concerts".   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_People%27s_Concerts 

    What I love about good classical music is that it goes somewhere, it has a destination, it has structure & design, it builds, it shines in places, it has shadows and highlights.  It's like good architecture, it's the unique grand buildings of the music world.  To continue the simile, so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just tract homes, trailer parks, and project housing.  Identical little cubicles stacked like cord wood, necessary for it's own reasons, but with the modern Internet it's easy to get out of the "hood" and wander in the grand spaces of the musical world.  And anybody can enter.

    But I did say "good classical music", because in my opinion there is a lot of old music composed by classically trained musicians that is also just bulldozer fodder after 10 years.  Even the great composers produced lesser and greater works.

     

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216
    Jan19 said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Tjohn said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...well summer making a bit of a return here again after a dull cool rainy holiday weekend, have money in the bank again, time to enjoy what's left of a nice day and a couple pints.

    Bottoms up and na zdravje!

    ...hvala ti.

    Had a nice evening and several extra pints were bought for me. In a very nice mood right now.

    I hope you have a hair of the dog somewhere. wink​ 

    Dog, dog -- the very reason I'm up before dawn. 

     

     

    ...I prefer to call it a "whisker of a cat", being a cat person and all.

  • ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216

    I get email ads from various symphonies in this region.  (Pittsburg, Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto).  I'd love to go but most are evening performances and too far away.  I keep track of the live performances I've seen and have a mental wishlist of masterworks I'd love to hear live.  Today I got an advertisement for the Sibelius 2nd Symphony in Cleveland Sept. 29th.  It's high on my wishlist but it's an evening performance and Cleveland is 120 miles away requiring a hotel stay.  Unfortunately, finding a safe hotel near the concert hall (Severance Hall) is expensive ($$$) and I still have to drive 10 miles into the city from the hotel.  Also unfortunately, the program also includes two other pieces I have zero interest in.  I would love to go to hear the Sibelius 2nd Symphony but the ducks aren't in a row for me.  I'll satisfy my itch with my Buffalo trip a couple weeks later.

    But the Sibelius 2nd Symphony is wonderful.  The final movement always sends chills up my spine when the deep horn and bass string notes rattle the windows.  It makes a sound like those long horns in the mountains of Nepal amid screaming Scandanavian winds and majestic mountain views.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAOf46CXaaw  my spine tingling moments start building @ 34:50 and again @ 43:43 and again from 47:00 to the end (speakers with lots of bass help)  (watch Leonard Bernstein literally jump around on the podium laugh)

    Oops, edited to get the correct link to YouTube.

    ...the Sibelius Second is one of my favourites as well. I find the D added 6th just before the final chord in the 4th movement to gives it a feeling of sweeping grandness.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216
    Stryder87 said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,491

    I am going to watch some felines play in Colorado tonight.  Rawr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,299
    edited September 2016
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    I love acoustic instruments, no electricity involved. 

    But to me the worst assault to my ears are those pop "singers" who seem to pretend they are opera master divas and waver around a note.  My mind is screaming "it's an "A" damn it!  Stop bleating around it like a drunken goat and SING IT."

     

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  • kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    I love acoustic instruments, no electricity involved. 

    But to me the worst assaut to my ears are those pop "singers" who seem to pretend they are opera master divas and waver around a note.  My mind is screaming "it's an "A" damn it!  Stop stumbling around it like a drunken goat and SING IT."

     

    yes

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    And real voices.  If you want to hear real voices come to Wales and listen to the fans at a Rugby match in Cardiff.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216
    edited September 2016
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    I love acoustic instruments, no electricity involved. 

    But to me the worst assault to my ears are those pop "singers" who seem to pretend they are opera master divas and waver around a note.  My mind is screaming "it's an "A" damn it!  Stop bleating around it like a drunken goat and SING IT."

     

    ...yes

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216
    Chohole said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    And real voices.  If you want to hear real voices come to Wales and listen to the fans at a Rugby match in Cardiff.

    ...the "godrays" coming through the opening in teh roof just make it all that much better.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216
    edited September 2016

    ...our local football club's "Army" (probably the closest in the State's to an Ultras, though not violent prone as some are)  Almost feel like I'm  not in the US when I go to a home match.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited September 2016
    kyoto kid said:
    Chohole said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    And real voices.  If you want to hear real voices come to Wales and listen to the fans at a Rugby match in Cardiff.

    ...the "godrays" coming through the opening in teh roof just make it all that much better.

    Yes,  It's never the same when they close the roof. 

    This is a popular hymn that you will hear often as well (although this version is lead by professional singers)




    This is one of the hymns I included for himself''s funeral, because everyone who came would know it, even the English relatives, and it was one of his favourites.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216

    ...lovely.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Woes came home to no electricity. Hearing sirens. Hoping someone didn't hit a pole. Mars bars for dinner if my stove doesn't come on soon.
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Generator on. Keep fridge from spoiling food. Allowed one lamp. more sirens fixing electric means?
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    that wasnt so long  power back!   hurrying through the megagrab, no knowing what goin on neighborhood power utility

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,491

    uggghhh it is getting close to eight pm and I have not started laundry.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355

    Dizzy again. I hate vertigo.

     

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355

    One is blue, one is a dog.

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    kyoto kid said:
    Jan19 said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Tjohn said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...well summer making a bit of a return here again after a dull cool rainy holiday weekend, have money in the bank again, time to enjoy what's left of a nice day and a couple pints.

    Bottoms up and na zdravje!

    ...hvala ti.

    Had a nice evening and several extra pints were bought for me. In a very nice mood right now.

    I hope you have a hair of the dog somewhere. wink​ 

    Dog, dog -- the very reason I'm up before dawn. 

     

     

    ...I prefer to call it a "whisker of a cat", being a cat person and all.

    All right. :-)  Whisker of the cat then.

     

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    Tjohn said:

    Dizzy again. I hate vertigo.

    Can you avoid the vertigo triggers?

     

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    Tjohn said:

    One is blue, one is a dog.

    I can't figure out exactly what, but wow -- there is something really weird about that picture. laugh

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378

    I've seen that picture before.  That is one of those dogs that has the really loose skin!  If the face wasn't showing, you'd think it was just more towels!  Or a blanket!  laugh 

    Dana

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    DanaTA said:

    I've seen that picture before.  That is one of those dogs that has the really loose skin!  If the face wasn't showing, you'd think it was just more towels!  Or a blanket!  laugh 

    Dana

    That's what I thought.  I could've sworn that dog was a huge towel, until I saw his nose. smiley

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    Or Dave Brubeck from about 20' away at a small outdoor concert.

    In my opinion, modern music lost it's spirit with the advent of the electric bass. Just something about watching a musician crouched over a standup base, cool-ly covering the back end of the music, cannot be replaced by a monkey with an electric prancing around like a guitarist who cannot afford two more strings.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    MistyMist said:
    Generator on. Keep fridge from spoiling food. Allowed one lamp. more sirens fixing electric means?

    Solar panels. Batteries will run fridge and freezer for 24 hrs, or my computers for 48. Decisions, decisions... Lights are LEDs, I could run them for a week on three D cells. But yeah, I had the generator and the propane stove ready to go. Packing them away again was a pain.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,216
    edited September 2016
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    Or Dave Brubeck from about 20' away at a small outdoor concert.

    In my opinion, modern music lost it's spirit with the advent of the electric bass. Just something about watching a musician crouched over a standup base, cool-ly covering the back end of the music, cannot be replaced by a monkey with an electric prancing around like a guitarist who cannot afford two more strings.

    ...actually saw the Brubeck quintet many many  years ago at the Milwaukee Summerfest on the Jazz Stage.  Cool time.

    Saw this group from Chicago there as well who named themselves after their city's transit system. Loved the big fat horn sound they had.  At the time I hoped they would make it big.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    Jan19 said:
    DanaTA said:

    I've seen that picture before.  That is one of those dogs that has the really loose skin!  If the face wasn't showing, you'd think it was just more towels!  Or a blanket!  laugh 

    Dana

    That's what I thought.  I could've sworn that dog was a huge towel, until I saw his nose. smiley

    Shar pei puppy. smiley

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